Using Batch files to start windows apps from command line

[Guest]

Under Windows 2000 I would run the following batch file

@ECHO OF
"c:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\8.00\Accessories\htelnet.exe" @"c:\BAT\default.hts" %

to command-line start applications. Under Windows XP, the batch file works, but waits for the program to end before returning to a command prompt. Anyway to terminate the batch file without, killing the application it started

Thanks
Wynn

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Wynn;

Put exit as the last line.



Exits the current batch script or the Cmd.exe program (that is, the command
interpreter) and returns to the program that started Cmd.exe or to the
Program Manager.

Command-line reference A-Z
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...hnet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/ntcmds.asp